In Monica Majoli’s exhibition Distant Lover 2009–2024, figures and forms appear to float, suspended, as though in the essential solitude of the work. Textures and techniques hail subjects through concentrations of meaning inscribed on the surface. Lines contour intimacies in volumes and depths, which over time, in repetitions and returns, appear as a language forged in contact.

In her lecture, Sabrina Tarasoff will discuss Majoli’s works as spaces of concentration; that is, as surfaces fraught with the solitary effort of “realizing” an image. These are works crafted in the understanding of the work of art as a place of private encounter, wherein emotional and technical processes coalesce in the notion of a record. Per its Latin etymology, the re-corded means to return or to remember something designated at heart. Tarasoff’s talk aims to examine Majoli’s space of making through the repetitions and returns of subjects and formal gestures, which draw near the emotional entanglements at the core of her efforts.

Sabrina Tarasoff (*1991 in Jyväskylä, Finland) is a writer and critic based in Paris. Her work has been extensively published across publications such as Artforum, Los Angeles Review of Books, X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, and C Magazine. Tarasoff's writings, revolving critical theory, literature, and visual cultures, have also recently appeared in catalogues and books by Inventory Press, American Art Catalogues, and Semiotext(e). Her on-going research into Los Angeles’ cultural milieu in the 1980s was featured in the Hammer Museum’s 2020 biennial, a version, and is currently being developed into a book of essays, titled Fantasyworld. She is also the editor of the first anthology of late poet Bob Flanagan’s collected writings, Fun To Be Dead: The Poems of Bob Flanagan, published by Kristina Kite Gallery and Pep Talk.

The lecture will be held in English.